In case you missed it, today’s Google Doodle managed to reference not only the current Winter Olympics in South Korea, but also the fact that...

There is no denying the fact that birders are a discriminating bunch. This seems to apply especially to birders in North American since most...

I love a coffee in the morning. I live in Wellington, a city with more coffee shops and restaurants per capita than any other...

…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a...

The first weekend of March had me upstate which means that I didn’t get to see the Red-necked Grebe that Doug Futuyma found at...

Despite having only revealed 6 pictures on my Kylie Minogue calender so far, I may already have a candidate for Best Bird of the...

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. Destined to be forever written off as ducks which...

That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics...